Hello, winter!

Screencap: Mutikluti from forum
Translation: Liis
 
 
The astronomical winter in Estonia began today, December 21, at 19.47.

Length of day is only a few minutes more than six hours. A meagre hour of twilight at dawn and dusk, and then nearly sixteen hours left for the night. It can’t be darker. But with winter with snow on the ground the darkness isn’t so compactly depressing as with “black earth”.
At Vilsandi white-tailed eagles rove around and grey seals romp in the “ice soup”. On the larger ice flakes it is already possible to glide. It will be interesting to follow the growing ice cover on the sea
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